Let’s Get Cooking episode in which we make popcorn with a vintage electric popper that has been in storage for 15 years. Does it still work after all this time? Electric sparks! Exploding kernels! It is better than microwave popcorn?

The Popper-PLUS: “a handsome appliance that does so many things well”
Made by Wyndale Mfg. Corp. of Indianapolis, Indiana

The “postal zone” address on the card dates this between 1943 and 1963 according to this Wikipedia page. The use of “Fire King” glass on the top would date it between 1942 and 1945 according to this FireKing faq. So this popper was made around 1944.

Make a high-protein breakfast dish in under 5 minutes! From a website for graduate students trying to survive on very little money, this is a recipe for peanut butter danish with only three ingredients. The recipe appeals to my minimalist side, because after cooking the dough is supposed to become both the sweet bread-like danish AND the creamy filling. This is my first attempt at cooking like this, so watch the video and see how it turns out.

1/3 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 tbsp sugar or honey

Put peanutbutter in small bowl and microwave 10 seconds to warm it up. Beat in the egg and sweetener with a fork. When it looks like dough, scrape into a blob with rubber spatula. Microwave for 1.5 minutes or 90 seconds.

Enjoy?

Creative Commons license music: “Hero Theme” and “Willow and the Light” from incompetech.com